Long Skittish Poems
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Poems About IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
skittish, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To EntropySalvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
skittish, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Rejection Slips 1Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
skittish, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
skittish, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost
till it became...
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Categories:
skittish, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection, memory, metaphor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Shaggy Dog Limericks: the All-Time Best -- Vote For Your FavoriteThe Spaniel
A Spaniel that uses its head
Can tell when its owner’s unfed
So instead of a duck
That is down on its luck
Will deliver a pizza instead
The Afghan Hound
The Afghan’s a dog groomer’s...
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Categories:
skittish, animal, cat, cute, dog, fun, humor, pets,
Form:
Limerick
The Bell In the BushThe Bell in the Bush
Down woodland paths the wolf did roam
Far away from his packs home
For game he’d wandered off to seek
The sick, the helpless and the weak
When happened he across a fawn
Tied amid, a...
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Categories:
skittish, animal, imagination, mother son,
Form:
Epic
April Fools For Bobby Lee“Just when he thought he’d had all he could take,
April arrived like a careless mistake.”
From DRIVING DIXIE DOWN by Anonymous Brown
Smithstonian Folkways Recordings catalogue # 317-704-1106
When something is broken, it’s no longer of any...
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Categories:
skittish, allegory, break up, history,
Form:
Blank verse
Wild Thing You Make My Heart SingWe have gone to the Kruger Park, and are now back,
All roads there are paved,
But for adventure, you can drive along very doable
Sand roads, the crocodile river runs parallel to
These sand roads and if you...
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Categories:
skittish, animal,
Form:
Narrative
Why Kites FlyFear and violence and guilty judgment
display synaptically sharp,
competing "Loser!" skittish economies.
Love and active peace sustain buoyance,
resilience,
robustly revolving away
from red skies of mourning;
cooperatively mutual Win-Win
ecology of evolution.
I want so badly to fly my competing belief kites,
and...
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Categories:
skittish, analogy, earth, environment, life, nature, religion, science,
Form:
Free verse
Stimulation: Rage-Guilt That OverflowsI was in the dumps; but as of right this instant, I'm flabbergasted by my brother's random actions and my weird interactions to be exact...great - messages have stimulated my phone...
Zzzzzzz the buzz was coming...
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Categories:
skittish, anger, angst, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, how
Form:
Free verse
Coloring Smiling Faces Donned With Faux Missing Teeth,Coloring smiling faces donned with faux missing teeth,
and waxing poetic lip schtick adorned with moustaches
Swarthy, spooky, scary carved
pumpkin faces thickly materialized
out of thin air
as Halloween holiday loomed near
yes... just an innocently naive fickle kid,
who...
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Categories:
skittish, 12th grade, 1st grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
Southern IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace
you climb, skittish kite ...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only...
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Categories:
skittish, adventure, america, angel, courage, flying, sun, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Eat, Sleep, Love, RepeatLight, the kind that brings the faintest glimmer of hope,
appeared suddenly through a darkened wood;
like an oasis after travelling through the Sahara so parched
with thirst threatening to take my life for good.
Though death’s bony palm...
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Categories:
skittish, angst, heartbreak, hope, hyperbole, love, love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme
Thru Maritime Miles 6-AftermathIn only a moment of maritime mirth
My ship's maiden voyage was missing at birth
The King's Royal Navy reduced me in rank
By flushing my ship in the place where it sank
I fell in the sea with...
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Categories:
skittish, adventure, humor, ocean,
Form:
Epic
BlackI am homeward bound
Lusty thoughts, for the love I miss
It’s a surprise, I am coming ‘round
I’m expected two days beyond this
Being away, day after day, left a hole
Being away, hollowed my soul
I rush towards your...
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Categories:
skittish, angst, death, lost love, lovelove,
Form:
Chant Royal
Shaggy Dog Limericks IiiThe Doberman Pinscher
A Doberman’s known to be picky
With friends so to greet one is tricky
To kiss is a bummer
Undoubtedly dumber
Is to sneak up and give one a hickey
The English Setter
The reason we call them a...
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Categories:
skittish, animal, cute, dog, funny, humor, humorous, pets,
Form:
Limerick
Love and Hunting, Part II was moving down an access trail
in my favorite Pennsylvania game land,
heading towards and open meadow,
near which I’d set up a tree stand.
Then came a rustling from some bushes thick,
a buck shot out at lightning...
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Categories:
skittish, humorous, love, lust, nature, relationship, silly, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
skittish, angst,
Form:
Shadorma
Why I stopped going to Denny'sIt's because of the bacon.
Yeah, it looks good on the menu, sitting there at the rim of the plate. Glistening. Archetypally ridged and ruffled. Positioned perfectly next to the eggs over easy, the pancakes, buxom...
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Categories:
skittish, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
A Clowder of Cats and a Murder of CrowsFor those avid crossword groupies of which I are one,
I'm offering free of charge vital data to add to your fun.
So you're stuck on 15-down for the name of a barren of mules!
Groups of creatures...
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Categories:
skittish, animal, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
FaintheartAmid Arcady's sylvan groves(where once I gazed
Upon such luminous and alabaster grace
By her immortal beauty raptly drawn and dazed
As she turned and gently upraised her elfin face.
Like Aphrodite from...
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Categories:
skittish, lost love, love hurts, sad love, solitude,
Form:
Pastoral
Animals Are My Prime Favorites, How About You?I like cute dogs, poofy dogs, goofy dogs,
Wiggly Giggly Barking dogs, quiet dogs too,
Smart dogs, silly dogs, crazy dogs, lazy dogs,
Large agressive guarding dogs,
Those are just a few,
I enjoy helpful dogs, playful dogs, bashful dogs,
Hyperactive...
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Categories:
skittish, animals, children, funny, pets, social, thank you,
Form:
I do not know?
September AlliterationSweet September, see how splendidly she shines!
Subtlety submitting seasonal splendour, she
swamps summer’s splendiferous sights,
by stealthily shrouding splendid scenery,
with suffused sensuous, sybaritic, scenarios!
Sublimely serene, she spatters and splashes
slivers of saffron, sepia and sienna shades,
slapdash over...
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Categories:
skittish, giggle, september,
Form:
Alliteration
Hell Yes PleaseDo you want?
NO!
A puppy?
YES!
Do you want to
NO!
Go to your friend Susan's?
Yes, I guess I do.
Do you want
NO
Living with me is really fun.
You can ask your husband.
He calls me his 9-year-old boy.
My first answer is...
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Categories:
skittish, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Free verse